Education and Poverty

Education and Poverty

Introduction

Education and Poverty does share a strong bond between the two as in view of the experts the only way to fight poverty is through the tool of education. As education tends to enlighten the path on which the nations can walk and grow in stature both economically and socially. In the light of the research it can be stated that poverty can be defined in several ways and can mean different things to people of different societies. Poverty can be not defined or perceived in the general term rather it needs to be classified into different forms in order to understand the notion effectively. Different ways of defining poverty are debated by government officials and researchers. How poverty is defined is integral to the task of reducing its prevalence in society. Moreover, the fact needs to be kept in mind that ancillary education an individual tend to receive, the chance of facing the poverty of any nature tends to reduce along his or her life. Different studies in this regard conclude the fact that importance of education is significant in the sense that most of the characteristics of a population vary when education varies and is directly proportional to poverty (Cibulka, 2003).

As moving further in the course of the paper it becomes essential to decipher different stratums of Poverty. Absolute poverty is defined as the lack of resources in order to acquire

Minimum standard of living for oneself or one's family. However, relative poverty is defined as apposition where the level of poverty is interpreted as per the mean poverty level of the society. Persons living in relative poverty may have no car, no television, and no toys for their children but have enough money for clothing, food and shelter. But despite of having the basic necessities of life they are relatively poor as pitched against the average Americans. A person or family living in absolute poverty, on the other hand, may not have enough money to pay for rent or groceries for the month (Armor, 1972). Experts are of the view that poverty does not allow the society to grow, and therefore it is must for any country to minimize poverty, to the level where it does not limit the growth of the country along with the society. Thus, in this regard many solutions have surfaced as a result of different studies among those solutions economic growth and education appears to be the most effective. However,

Economic growth alone does not hold the venom to minimize poverty to an ideal level; it needs to be backed by the tool of education. Therefore, it becomes imperative to ensure the inclusion of the poorest in the educational system. According to estimates, each year of education tends to reduce the chance by six percent for an individual of getting caught up

Poverty, of any nature. The belief that students in poverty can achieve better results yields the conviction that academic instruction is important.

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